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Out on bail, men accused of rape murder victim’s mother in Unnao
According to police, the accused entered the 20-year-old survivor’s house carrying .312 and .315 bore country-made rifles and sharp-edged weapons along with a third aide.
KANPUR Two men accused of raping a woman broke into her home in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday and opened indiscriminate fire, killing the woman’s mother and injuring three other family members, before one of them died by suicide, police said.
The attack took place less than two months after the two were released on bail in the rape case. The woman’s family said they had approached police last week alleging death threats from them. The survivor said police took no action on their complaint.
According to police, the accused entered the 20-year-old survivor’s house carrying .312 and .315 bore country-made rifles and sharp-edged weapons along with a third aide.
HT is not naming the accused as they were neighbours of the gang rape survivor.
One of the men started firing inside the room in which the survivor and six of her family members were sleeping, killing her mother and injuring her father and two sisters, according to police.
“An FIR was registered on the complaint of the [survivor’s] family with the Fatehpur Chaurasi police. The FIR says the attack was pre-meditated. The police have begun an investigation into the case. Those on the run will soon be arrested,” inspector general (Lucknow range) Prashant Kumar said.
The survivor’s father and 24-year-old sister have been shifted to LLR Hospital in Kanpur for treatment, and their condition was reportedly stable. Her 12-year-old sister is undergoing treatment at a local health facility, police said.
Police officers familiar with the matter said one of the attackers killed himself near the survivor’s house. They said that a video was recovered from his mobile, in which he purportedly said he was going to kill the complainant and her family because he was falsely implicated in the rape case. HT has not seen the video and could not independently verify its authenticity. The other two attackers are on the run.
The gang rape accused were arrested in August last year after the survivor filed a complaint. They walked out of jail on May 10 after getting bail.
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